Perceptive Content / ImageNow iScript Part 2

Back by popular demand, RPI Consultants offers this second installation of Office Hours for Perceptive Content / ImageNow iScript. During this recording, you will find live demonstrations and hear interactive Q&A related to iScript, Perceptive Content’s custom automation engine.

Speaker 1:
Hello, welcome to Office Hours, everyone. This is RPI’s Monthly Office Hours where we just try to show you cool stuff and try to give you an opportunity to ask us questions about what we’re presenting or if you have questions that are unrelated, feel free to ask those as well. We’re just trying to keep an open dialogue with everybody to be an open resource. Before we get started with my presentation, one thing I want to point out is in the webinar Menu, there should be a drop-down option for handouts, the Handouts Section. There’s a Word document that’s included with this webinar. It’s called RPI iScript Resources.

That document is the same document that we use in part one of this series, but it’s still relevant to what we’re talking about today. If you missed the first part of this, please open that up. I’m actually going to share and go through a couple things here, but definitely hold on to this because it’s a great resource to just walk you through the different things that you can use on your end to help yourself with iScript. Last time we did this, we spent a little bit of time going through the basics of iScript and some of the basic things that you can do with it. This time, what we’re going to do is focus more on database queries.

We’re going to look at how do we connect to a database, how do we run a query. I specifically have a reindex iScript that I’m using. It’s like an example of HR script. I have an employee ID that I’m going to query against a database table to find employee information and index the document. We’ll be indexing index keys like field one through five and custom properties so that we can show you those differences. In the last, if you missed the first part of this, I definitely recommend going back and taking a look at that. I’m not going to cover all of the little basics like I did last time. It’s really helpful if you go back on that one. It was a little bit longer because we tried to cover a lot of stuff at iScript. Definitely go back and look at that because it was a lot of information.

Let me show you what I’m talking about here. This is the important links and resources for iScript document that’s in the Handout Section. The main things we’re going to be talking about today and really that you talk about all the time when we’re discussing iScript are the STL Files and we’ll be talking about the INDocument object. The STL Files, if you aren’t familiar with them, is just the standard template library of functions that are available for you to use within iScript. They’re generally included with your system. If you just go to your Scripts Directory, you’ll see the STL File in there. If you don’t have them, you can grab them off of Hyland’s website.

The really nice thing about that group of STL Files is the index. Inside of the STL Folder, you’ll find an index HTML and it takes you to this page. Let me get this thing out of here. Minimize this. There we go. On the STL Index page, we just have kind of a group on the left side, groupings of functionality. For example, if I break out document, it’s going to show me a whole bunch of different functions that are available to me that are specific to documents within Perceptive Content. For example, if I want to reindex a document like what we’re going to do today, I can find that Reindex Document function here, click on it and it’s going to show me not only example code but also like what it returns, what I need to pass into it.

Here’s an example of the method where I can break this out, I know that my function is Reindex Document, and it shows me the different items that I nee